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. 2000 Sep-Oct;6(5):526–529. doi: 10.3201/eid0605.000512

Pertussis infection in fully vaccinated children in day-care centers, Israel.

I Srugo 1, D Benilevi 1, R Madeb 1, S Shapiro 1, T Shohat 1, E Somekh 1, Y Rimmar 1, V Gershtein 1, R Gershtein 1, E Marva 1, N Lahat 1
PMCID: PMC2627963  PMID: 10998384

Abstract

We tested 46 fully vaccinated children in two day-care centers in Israel who were exposed to a fatal case of pertussis infection. Only two of five children who tested positive for Bordetella pertussis met the World Health Organization's case definition for pertussis. Vaccinated children may be asymptomatic reservoirs for infection.

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